Last Thursday, I ‘dragged’ KK to Prive for the official launch of Dominic’s charity coffee table book titled ‘Pure’.
Inspired by his late, altruistic mother, Dom decided to honour her memory by putting his energy [and talent, if I may add] into a project he feel would capture the real spirit of charity, and thus the idea of Pure was born.
Pure is a 50-page coffee table-sized photography book featuring well-known personalities such as Michelle Chia, May & Choy, Jaymee Ong, Utt and Ploy J., Charmaine Harn, Rebecca Tan and Celina Lin, laughing or crying in the nude. The personalities are part of a list of over 20 local and regional individuals who, ignited by Dominic’s passion for the project, have volunteered to bare all in this first-of-its kind coffee-table photography book.
100% of the sale of the books will go towards supporting various organisations such as SCW, Singapore After-Care Association and HOME, to name a few.
One day in Nihon, sister and I were watching the telly where there was a variety show introducing the J-dorama, Nodame Cantabile.
It seemed interesting so we plugged it as a to-watch show once we return.
Nodame Cantabile:
Shinichi Chiaki [Hiroshi Tamaki], is Momogaoka College of Music’s top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he feels mired in Japan because of a childhood phobia.
Megumi Noda [Ueno Juri], or “Nodame” is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized, takes baths several days apart and loves to eat, sometimes stealing her friend’s lunchbox when it is filled with delicacies.
They meet by accident. Noda quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Noda’s unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Because of Noda, Chiaki got the opportunity to lead a student orchestra and begins to have a broader appreciation of people’s musical abilities. Because of Chiaki, Noda faces her fears and enters a piano competition. Opportunities open up as both begin taking risks, stretching themselves far more than they ever thought possible.
I was surfing online shopping sites, admiring earrings and bracelets, when a thought came into my mind, unbidden.
That moment when I found out your bracelet slipped from my wrist to be lost forever, somehow at the back of my mind, I knew I would be losing you [in a matter of time].
That’s how it is. Things get lost. People slip away.
After all these time, my wrist feels bare, without your Tiffany bracelet which means more to me than its monetary price could ever be.
“I do not believe in love at first sight,” I told sister some weeks ago.
That was then.
“But I believe in physical attraction at first sight.”
so I AM totally crazily topsy-turvily intensely insanely passionately uncontrollably wildly head-over-heels inLUSTLOVE ok fine, not love, just LUST with…
The thing with social networks such as Friendster and Facebook is that you will find lots of strange unknown people adding you to their friends list.
Starm|st, being the anti-social person she is, decided to arm herself against such people by upping the privacy mode for these networks. In her facebook account, people who are not on her friends list can only see her profile picture and her name [and probably her nickname]. Her nickname says ’starm|st does not add people she does not know’.
Which part of that nick is difficult to understand?!
The number currently stands at 21. Some simply add without an explanation or a word. Some sounds sincere enough. And some are just plain wrong.
They are getting increasingly dodgy.
Today I got strange one [which is not the worst actually]:
Hi Sweetie… Happen to see your profile in my friend list of D***… U are such and sweetie… Did anyone told you that? How abt making friend.. Drop me a message and we shall start our woinderful journey of Sweet Chanting..LOL
WHAT sweet chanting????! Sounds like he belongs to a cult or something. And I am not his sweetie. #&@)#@*#%!! For some reason, I hatehatehate people calling me sweetie when they do not know me at all. A wonderful journey with him? Do. Not. Want! *runs away, petrified*
I do not know whether to be irritated or amused.
I know this post is unreasonably harsh. But I am also a little inebriated. On a Tuesday night. So.. BYE.
